We use linked servers in SQL Server 2000 (I know...) to pump data from an AS400 running DB2 in to some tables in SQL Server to do analysis. It is realy painful as the source system is a Danish ERP ...

Sigma Launches Native Semantic Layer Integration and AI SQL Capabilities on Snowflake AI Data ... data—like contracts, receipts, product specs, and image files—as if it lived in a table.

A few years ago, teams had to write SQL queries and code to extract useful information from large swathes of data. Today, all they have to do is type in a question.